Nt1330 Unit 1 Assignment 1

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Within the first couple weeks of this class I had found a project, had it fall through, and had to find another project. That is how I came across the project for Dr. Erik Hom from the biology department. Dr. Hom’s lab has a project where they are collecting biological samples from all over the world. Each of their samples have metadata associated with the samples. Up to this point, they had no place to store all of this data. So, the primary goal of this project would be to create a web based place where they can do that. A graduate student of Dr. Hom’s had put together a database schema in the past that we originally thought we could modify for this project. After a couple weeks, we discovered that we would not be able to do that and a new database would need to be created. …show more content…
Their local server was set up through CentOS, so I used that to build it up and create a CentOS server with Apache, PHP, and MySQL that could host the website created for this project. I then added a new site to this server and tested it using very basic HTML. After I knew the server and website would work together I had to start studying how to program in SQL and PHP, as well as figuring out how to create a database that would do what their lab needs it to do. I also used this research time to write my design specification and review it with my sponsor who made some adjustments to the document before final